NUTHATCH. 77 



20— ORANGE-WINGED NUTHATCH.— Pl. lxiii. 



Sitta chrysoptera, Gen. Syn. Sup. xxxii. 



Orange-winged Nuthatch, Gen. Syn. 'Sup. ii. 146. pl. 227. Shaw's Zool. viii. 126. 



LENGTH almost four inches. Bill brown-black, slender, and 

 nearly strait ; irides reddish ; general colour of the plumage brownish 

 ash-colour, streaked on the upper parts with dusky ; beneath bluish 

 white ; rump and upper tail coverts the same ; tail dark brown, 

 nearly black ; base and ends of the greater quills the same, in the 

 middle tawny orange-colour ; all but the two middle feathers of the 

 tail tipped with dusky white ; legs lead-colour, claws moderate. 

 Inhabits New-Holland ; native name Murrigang. 



A. — Size of the other. Bill the same and black; back ash- 

 colour, with dark brown streaks down the shafts of each feather; 

 quills brown, but when a little expanded a large bed of rufous 

 appears, arising from a bed of that colour in the middle of each quill, 

 chiefly so marked on the inner webs, the outer being ash-colour ; 

 under parts of the body and rump pure white, but the under tail 

 coverts are barred black and white ; tail black, all the feathers more 

 or less white at the tips, the outer feathers having most white. 



Inhabits New-Holland, and is probably a Variety, or sexual 

 difference of the other. Both of them described from specimens in 

 Mr. Bullock's Museum. We have seen one of these in which the 

 upper part of the plumage was uniform in colour, without any 

 streaks on the feathers. 



